Hans Christian Andersen (1805 - 1875) - Genealogy Hans Christian Andersen Share your family tree and photos with the people you know and love Build your family tree online Share photos and videos in Copenhagen, København, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark Place of Burial: Assistens Cemetery, Copenhagen Hovedstaden, Denmark Immediate Family: Half brother of Karen Marie Andersen Managed by: Added 2016-10-22 20:46:40 -0700 by David Widerberg Howden Collection: Cause of death: Liver cancer - Aug 4 1875 - Copenhagen Parents: Hans Andersen, Anne Marie Andersdatter Residences: Apr 2 1805 - Sct.

Hans, Odense, Odense Death: Apr 2 1805 - Odense, Danmark Death: Aug 4 1875 - København, Danmark Parents: <Private> Andersdatter, Anne Marie Andersdatter Siblings: Johanne Hansen (født Hansdatter), Caren Marie Andersen ( Fader: Daniel Jørgensen Rosenvind ) Wife: mother's partner's daughter About Hans Christian Andersen Hans Christian Andersen , often referred to in Scandinavia as H. C. Andersen, was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, Andersen is best remembered for his fairy tales. Andersen's popularity is not limited to children; his stories, called eventyr in Danish or "fairy-tales" in English, express themes that transcend age and nationality. Andersen's fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to children, but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well.

Some of his most famous fairy tales include "The Emperor's New Clothes", "The Little Mermaid", "The Nightingale", "The Snow Queen", "The Ugly Duckling", and many more. His stories have inspired ballets, both animated and live-action films, and plays. Om Hans Christian Andersen (Dansk) Over H.C. Andersens nærmeste slægt meddeles efter det oplyste følgende oversigt: Søren Jensen Postrider i Assens Død 2. august 1754 Gift med Karen Nielsdatter. Død 12. januar 1768 ↓ Karen (eller Cathrine) Sørensdatter Født omtr. 1708. Død 1. april 1799 Gift med Nommen Nommesen Stadstambour i Odense Født omtr. 1707. Død 6. febr. 1787 ↓ Anne Cathrine Nommensdatter Født 1. dec. 1745. Død 29. aug. 1822 Gift 19.dec.

1781 med Anders Hansen. Død 5. febr. 1827 ↓ Hans Andersen, friskomager i Odense Født 14. dec. 1782. Død 26. april 1816 Gift 2. febr. 1805 med Anne Marie Andersdatter. Død 7. okt. 1833 ( hun gift 8. juli 1818 med Niels Jørgensen Gundersen, døbt 31. marts 1787. Død 4. juni 1822 ) ↓ Hans Christian Andersen Født 2. april 1805 Død 4. August 1875. Note generelt: Ovenstående er uddrag af en omskrivning "Om Hans Christian Andersens Slægt" Af Gustav Ludvig Wad. Odense Hempelske Boghandels Forlag Fyens Stiftsbogtrykkeri (Dreyer) 1905.

Oversigt over hele indholdet: Hans Christian Andersen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hans Christian Andersen For other uses, see Hans Christian Andersen (disambiguation) . Hans Christian Andersen Ludvig Holberg , William Shakespeare Hans Christian Andersen (pronounced [ˈhanˀs ˈkʰʁæʂd̥jan ˈɑnɐsn̩] in Danish), also known as simply H. C. Andersen [hɔse ˈɑnɐsn̩]); ( April 2 , 1805 – August 4 , 1875 ) was a Danish author and poet , most famous for his fairy tales . Among his best-known stories are " The Steadfast Tin Soldier ", " The Snow Queen ", " The Little Mermaid ", " Thumbelina ", " The Little Match Girl ", " The Ugly Duckling " and " The Red Shoes ". During Andersen's lifetime he was feted by royalty and acclaimed for having brought joy to children across Europe. His fairy tales have been translated into over 150 languages and continue to be published in millions of copies all over the world and inspired many other works.

[1] Contents [ edit ] Childhood Hans Christian Andersen was born in Odense , Denmark , on Tuesday, April 2, 1805. Most English (as well as German and French ) sources use the name "Hans Christian Andersen", but in Denmark and the rest of Scandinavia he is usually referred to as merely "H. C. Andersen". His name "Hans Christian" is a traditional Danish name and is used as a single name, though originally a combination of two individual names. It is incorrect to use only one of the two parts without the other. It is an accepted custom in Denmark to use only the initials in this and a few other names. Andersen's father believed that he might be related to nobility, and according to scholars at the Hans Christian Andersen Center, his paternal grandmother told him that the family had once been in a higher social class. However, investigation proves these stories were unfounded. The family apparently did have some connections to Danish royalty, but these were only work-related.

Nevertheless, the theory that Andersen was the illegitimate son of royalty continues to persist in Denmark, bolstered by the fact that the Danish king at the time took a personal interest in Andersen as a youth and paid for his education.[ citation needed ] The writer Rolf Dorset insists that not all options have been explored in determining Andersen's ancestry. [2] Andersen displayed great intelligence and imagination as a young boy, traits that were fostered by the indulgence of his parents and by the superstition of his mother. He made himself a small toy-theatre and sat at home making clothes for his puppets, and reading all the plays that he could lay his hands upon; among them were those of Ludvig Holberg and William Shakespeare . Throughout his childhood, he had a passionate love for literature. He was known to memorize entire plays by Shakespeare and to recite them using his wooden dolls as actors.[ citation needed ] Hans Christian Andersen in 1869. In 1816, his father died because of an illness he obtained soon after leaving the family for the war against Sweden and, in order to support himself, Andersen worked as an apprentice for both a weaver and a tailor.

At the age of fourteen, Andersen moved to Copenhagen seeking employment as an actor in the theatre. He had a pleasant soprano voice and succeeded in being admitted to the Royal Danish Theatre . This career stopped short when his voice broke. A colleague at the theatre had referred to him as a poet, and Andersen took this very seriously and began to focus on writing. He had a half-sister, Karen Marie, to whom he only spoke once or twice before she died.[ citation needed ] Following an accidental meeting, Jonas Collin started taking an interest in the odd boy and sent Andersen to the grammar school in Slagelse , paying all his expenses. [3] Before being admitted to grammar-school, Andersen had succeeded in publishing his first story, The Ghost at Palnatoke's Grave in 1822. Though an unwilling pupil, Andersen studied both in Slagelse and at a school in Elsinore until 1827. [4] He later stated that these years had been the darkest and most bitter parts of his life.

He had experienced living in his schoolmaster's own home, being abused in order to "build his character", and he had been alienated from his fellow students, being much older than most of them, homely and unattractive. Furthermore, he was dyslexic , a very likely reason for his learning difficulties and he later said that the school faculty forbade or discouraged him to write.[ citation needed ] [ edit ] Early works In 1829, Andersen enjoyed a considerable success with a short story entitled "A Journey on Foot from Holmen's Canal to the East Point of Amager". During the same season, he published both a farce and a collection of poems. He had little further progress, however, until 1833 when he received a small traveling grant from the King, making the first of his long European journeys. At Le Locle, in the Jura, he wrote "Agnete and the Merman"; in 1833 he visited the Italian seaside village of Sestri Levante (and is credited with naming its two bays) (see -- annual festival celebrates this); and in October 1834 he arrived in Rome .

Andersen's first novel, The Improvisatore, was published in the beginning of 1835, and became an instant success. During these years, H.C. Andersen resided in 20, Nyhavn, Copenhagen , where a memorial plaque unveiled on the 8th of May in 1935 as a gift from Peter Schannong was placed [5] . [ edit ] Andersen's Fairy Tales Paper chimney sweep cut by Andersen. It was during 1835 that Andersen published the first installment of his immortal Fairy Tales (Danish: Eventyr). More stories, completing the first volume, were published in 1836 and 1837. The quality of these stories was not immediately recognised, and they sold poorly. At the same time, Andersen enjoyed more success with two novels: O.T. (1836) and Only a Fiddler. His Specialty book that is still known today was the Ugly Duckling. (1837).

[ edit ] Jeg er en Skandinav After a visit to Sweden in 1837, Andersen became inspired by Scandinavism and committed himself to writing a poem to convey his feeling of relatedness between the Swedes , the Danes and the Norwegians . [6] It was in July 1839 during a visit to the island of Funen that Andersen first wrote the text of his poem Jeg er en Skandinav (I am a Scandinavian). [6] Andersen designed the poem to capture "the beauty of the Nordic spirit, the way the three sister nations have gradually grown together" as part of a Scandinavian national anthem. [6] Composer Otto Lindblad set the poem to music and the composition was published in January 1840. Its popularity peaked in 1845, after which it was seldom sung. [6] . [ edit ] Travelogues In 1851, he published to wide acclaim In Sweden, a volume of travel sketches. A keen traveller, Andersen published several other long travelogues : Shadow Pictures of a Journey to the Harz, Swiss Saxony, etc. etc.

in the Summer of 1831 (A Poet's Bazaar (560), In Spain , and A Visit to Portugal in 1866 (The latter describes his visit with his Portuguese friends Jorge and Jose O'Neill, who were his fellows in the mid 1820s while living in Copenhagen.) In his travelogues, Andersen took heed of some of the contemporary conventions about travel writing; but always developed the genre to suit his own purposes. Each of his travelogues combines documentary and descriptive accounts of the sights he saw with more philosophical excurses on topics such as being an author, immortality, and the nature of fiction in the literary travel report. Some of the travelogues, such as In Sweden, even contain fairy-tales. In the 1840s Andersen's attention returned to the stage, however with no great success at all. His true genius was however proved in the miscellany the Picture-Book without Pictures (1840). The fame of his Fairy Tales had grown steadily; a second series began in 1838 and a third in 1845.

Andersen was now celebrated throughout Europe, although his native Denmark still showed some resistance to his pretensions. Between 1845 and 1864, H. C. Andersen lived in 67, Nyhavn, Copenhagen, where a memorial plaque is placed [5] . [ edit ] Meetings with Dickens In June 1847, Andersen paid his first visit to England and enjoyed a triumphal social success during the summer. The Countess of Blessington invited him to her parties where intellectual and famous people could meet, and it was at one party that he met Charles Dickens for the first time. They shook hands and walked to the veranda which was of much joy to Andersen. He wrote in his diary "We had come to the veranda, I was so happy to see and speak to England's now living writer, whom I love the most." [7] Ten years later, Andersen visited England, primarily to visit Dickens. He stayed at Dickens' home for five weeks, oblivious to Dickens' increasingly blatant hints for him to leave.

Dickens' daughter said of Andersen, "He was a bony bore, and stayed on and on." [7] Shortly after Andersen left, Dickens published David Copperfield , featuring the obsequious Uriah Heep , who is said to have been modeled on Andersen. Andersen himself greatly enjoyed the visit, and never understood why Dickens stopped answering his letters. [ edit ] Sexuality Modern biographies often portray him as attracted to both women and men , and there is very clear evidence for both. Andersen often fell in love with unattainable women and many of his stories are interpreted as references to his sexual grief. [8] The most famous of these was the opera soprano Jenny Lind . One of his stories is " The Nightingale ", was a written expression of his passion for Lind, and became the inspiration for her nickname, the "Swedish Nightingale". Andersen was often shy around women and had extreme difficulty in proposing to Lind. When Lind was boarding a train to take her to an opera concert, Anderson gave Lind a letter of proposal. Her feelings towards him were not mutual; she saw him as a brother, writing to him in 1844 "farewell...

God bless and protect my brother is the sincere wish of his affectionate sister, Jenny." [9] A girl named Riborg Voigt was the unrequited love of Andersen's youth. A small pouch containing a long letter from Riborg was found on Andersen's chest when he died. At one point he wrote in his diary: "Almighty God, thee only have I; thou steerest my fate, I must give myself up to thee! Give me a livelihood! Give me a bride! My blood wants love, as my heart does!" [10] Other disappointments in love included Sophie Ørsted, the daughter of the physicist Hans Christian Ørsted , and Louise Collin, the youngest daughter of his benefactor Jonas Collin. Just like his interest in women, Andersen would become attracted to nonreciprocating men. For example Andersen wrote to Edvard Collin , [11] : "I languish for you as for a pretty Calabrian wench... my sentiments for you are those of a woman.

The femininity of my nature and our friendship must remain a mystery." Collin, who did not prefer men, wrote in his own memoir: "I found myself unable to respond to this love, and this caused the author much suffering." Likewise, the infatuations of the author for the Danish dancer Harald Scharff [12] and Carl Alexander , the young hereditary duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach , [13] did not result in any relationships. Four of his letters to Carl are edited in an anthology by Rictor Norton . In Andersen's early life, his private journal records his refusal to have sexual relations. [14] [15] [ edit ] Death In the spring of 1872, Andersen fell out of bed and was severely hurt. He never quite recovered, but he lived until August 4 1875, dying quietly in a house called Rolighed (literally: calmness), near Copenhagen, the home of his close friends Moritz Melchior, a banker, and his wife.

[16] Shortly before his death, he had consulted a composer about the music for his funeral, saying: "Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with little steps." [16] His body was interred in the Assistens Kirkegård in the Nørrebro area of Copenhagen . At the time of his death, he was an internationally renowned and treasured artist. He received a stipend from the Danish Government as a "national treasure". Before his death, steps were already underway to erect the large statue in his honour, which was completed and is prominently placed at the town hall square in Copenhagen. [1] In the English-speaking world, stories such as " Thumbelina ", " The Snow Queen ", " The Ugly Duckling ", " The Little Mermaid ", " The Emperor's New Clothes ", and " The Princess and the Pea " remain popular and are widely read. "The emperor's new clothes" and "ugly duckling" have both passed into the English language as well-known expressions.

Puppet & Actor Theatre of Hans Christian Andersen in Lublin (Poland) In the Copenhagen harbor there is a statue of The Little Mermaid , placed in honour of Hans Christian Andersen. 2 April , Andersen's birthday, is celebrated as International Children's Book Day . The year 2005 was the bicentenary of Andersen's birth and his life and work was celebrated around the world. In Denmark, particularly, the nation's most famous son has been feted like no other literary figure.[ citation needed ][ dubious – discuss ] In the city of Lublin , Poland is the Puppet & Actor Theatre of Hans Christian Andersen. Theatre Site A $12.5 million theme park based on Andersen's tales and life opened in Shanghai at the end of 2006. Multi-media games as well as all kinds of cultural contests related to the fairytales are available to visitors. He was chosen as the star of the park because he is a "nice, hardworking person who was not afraid of poverty", Shanghai Gujin Investment general manager Zhai Shiqiang was quoted by the AFP news agency as saying.

[17] The Wild Swans (1838) [22] [ edit ] Contemporary literary and artistic works inspired by Andersen's stories "The Naked King" ("Голый Король" 1937), "The Shadow" ("Тень" 1940), and "The Snow Queen" ("Снежная Королева" 1948) by Eugene Schwartz: reworked and adapted to the contemporary reality plays by one of Russia's most famous playwrights. Schwartz's versions of "The Shadow" and "The Snow Queen" were later made into movies (1971 and 1966, respectively). Sam the Lovesick Snowman at the Center for Puppetry Arts : a contemporary puppet show by Jon Ludwig inspired by The Snow Man. [18] The Ugly Duckling ("Гадкий утенок") (Children's opera) - Opera-Parable By Hans Christian Andersen. For Mezzo-Soprano (Soprano), Three-part Children's Choir And the Piano. 1 Act: 2 Epigraphs, 38 Theatrical Pictures. Length: Approximately 28 minutes.

The opera version (Free transcription) Written by Lev Konov (Лев Конов) (1996). On music of Sergei Prokofiev : The Ugly Duckling, op. 18 (1914) And Visions Fugitives, op. 22 (1915-1917). (Vocal score language: Russian, English, German, French). The first representation in Moscow in 1997.

The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf by Kathryn Davis: a contemporary novel about fairy tales and opera The Snow Queen by Joan Vinge : an award-winning novel that reworks the Snow Queen's themes into epic science fiction The Nightingale by Kara Dalkey : a lyrical adult fantasy novel set in the courts of old Japan The Wild Swans by Peg Kerr: a novel that brings Andersen's fairy tale to colonial and modern America Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier: a romantic fantasy novel, set in early Ireland, thematically linked to "The Wild Swans" Birdwing by Rafe Martin, a young adult novel that continues the tale of "The Wild Swans" with the story of Ardwin, the brother whose arm remained a wing The Snow Queen by Eileen Kernaghan: a gentle Young Adult fantasy novel that brings out the tale's subtle pagan and shamanic elements "The Snow Queen", a short story by Patricia A.

McKillip (published in Snow White, Blood Red) "You, Little Match Girl", a short story by Joyce Carol Oates (published in Black Heart, Ivory Bones) "Sparks", a short story by Gregory Frost (based on The Tinder Box, published in Black Swan, White Raven) "Steadfast", a short story by Nancy Kress (based on The Steadfast Tin Soldier, published in Black Swan, White Raven) "The Sea Hag", a short story by Melissa Lee Shaw (based on The Little Mermaid, published in Silver Birch, Blood Moon) "The Real Princess", a short story by Susan Palwick (based on The Princess and the Pea, published in Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears) "Match Girl", a short story by Anne Bishop (published in Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears) "The Pangs of Love", a short story by Jane Gardam (based on The Little Mermaid, published in Close Company: Stories of Mothers and Daughters) "The Chrysanthemum Robe", a short story by Kara Dalkey (based on The Emperor's New Clothes, published in The Armless Maiden) "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", a short story by Joan Vinge (published in Women

 of Wonder) "In the Witch's Garden", a short story by Naomi Kritzer (based on The Snow Queen, published in Realms of Fantasy magazine, October 2002 issue) "I Hear the Mermaids Singing", a short story by Nancy Holder (based on The Little Mermaid) "The Last Poems About the Snow Queen", a poem cycle by Sandra Gilbert (published in Blood Pressure) The Little Mermaid (2005) for children's chorus, narrator, orchestra by Richard Mills "La petite marchande d'allumettes", film by Jean Renoir (1928) [19] "The Andersen Project" by Robert Lepage : Freely inspired from two stories by Andersen (The Dryad and The Shadow).

"The Little Mermaid (1989 movie) (Walt Disney Pictures)Based on the original story. The Little Match Girl (2006 short) With the DVD Release of The Little Mermaid (Walt Disney Pictures)Based on the original story. The Little Mermaid for actress, two pianos and chamber ensemble/orchestra. [20] The Little Match Girl Passion - a choral work composed in 2007 by David Lang . It won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Music . The Ghost, an episode in the third series of the British TV show Hustle is based around the theft of an Andersen manuscript from an old English manor house. A Designer's Paradise, an episode in the fourth series of the British TV show Hustle bases a confidence trick around the story of The Emperor's New Clothes "Broken Angels", a novel by Richard Montanari focuses on a serial killer who murders people in accordance with Hans Christian Andersen stories. Stories included The Nightingale , Thumbelina , The Red Shoes , The Little Match Girl , The Steadfast Tin Soldier , The Tinderbox, What The Moon Saw, Anne Lisbeth, Little Claus and Big Claus, The Snow Man and Little Ida's Flowers.

"Striking Twelve", a Staged Concert/Musical by the New York band, Groove Lily, about a grumpy guy reading "The Little Match Girl" on New Year's Eve. [ edit ] See also Vilhelm Pedersen , the first illustrator of Andersen's fairy tales Chopin and The Nightingale is a dramatic reading with music in six acts, written by Cecilia and Jens Jorgensen of Icons of Europe for narrator, two sopranos and piano. It enacts the true-life romance of Chopin and Jenny Lind , which happens to resemble The Nightingale story of Hans Christian Andersen. When Chopin dies of tuberculosis in the arms of Jenny Lind, she decides to devote the rest of her life to paying tribute to his music. "Good Morning!", says the emperor / composer the next day. Performed - to celebrate the new Europe and World Tuberculosis Day - at Brussels (2003), Warsaw (2004), Toronto (2005) and New York State (2008). Hans Christian Andersen Biography Hans Christian Andersen Biography Updated October 25, 2016.

Biography of Hans Christian Andersen: Hans Christian Andersen was a famous Danish writer, known for his fairy tales, as well as other works. Birth and Education: Hans Christian Andersen was born in the slums of Odense. His father was a cobbler (shoemaker) and his mother worked as a washerwoman. His mother was also uneducated and superstitious. Andersen received very little education, but his fascination with fairy tales inspired him to compose his own stories and arrange puppet shows, on a theater his father had taught him to build and manage. Even with his imagination, and the stories his father told him, Andersen did not have a happy childhood. Hans Christian Andersen Death: Andersen died in his home in Rolighed on August 4, 1875. Hans Christian Andersen Career: His father died when Andersen was 11 (in 1816). Andersen was forced to go to work, first as an apprentice to a weaver and tailor and then in a tobacco factory. At the age of 14, he moved to Copenhagen to try a career as a singer, dancer and actor.

continue reading below our video What are the Seven Wonders of the World Even with the support of benefactors, the next three years were difficult. He sang in the boy's choir until his voice changed, but he made very little money. He also tried the ballet, but his awkwardness made such a career impossible. Finally, when he was 17, Chancellor Jonas Collin discovered Andersen. Collin was a director at the Royal Theater. After hearing the Andersen read a play, Collin realized that he had talent. Collin procured money from the king for Andersen's education, first sending him to a terrible, taunting teacher, then arranging a private tutor. In 1828, Andersen passed the entrance examinations to the university in Copenhagen. His writings were first published in 1829. And, in 1833, he received grant money for travel, which he used to visit Germany, France, Switzerland, and Italy. During his journey, he met Victor Hugo , Heinrich Heine, Balzac, and Alexandre Dumas. In 1835, Andersen published Fairy Tales for Children, which contained four short stories. He eventually wrote 168 fairy tales.

Among Andersen's best known fairy tales are "Emperor's New Clothes," "Little Ugly Duckling," "The Tinderbox," "Little Claus and Big Claus," "Princess and the Pea," "The Snow Queen," "The Little Mermaid," "The Nightingale," "The Story of a Mother and The Swineherd." In 1847, Andersen met Charles Dickens . In 1853, he dedicated A Poet's Day Dreams to Dickens. Anderson's work influenced Dickens, along with other writers like William Thackeray and Oscar Wilde. Hans Christian Andersen Hans Christian Andersen Location of death: Copenhagen, Denmark Cause of death: Natural Causes Nationality: Denmark Executive summary: Danish master of the fairy tale Danish poet and fabulist, born at Odense, in F�nen, on the 2nd of April 1805. He was the son of a sickly young shoemaker of twenty-two, and his still younger wife; the whole family lived and slept in one little room. Andersen very early showed signs of imaginative temperament, which was fostered by the indulgence and superstition of his parents.

In 1816 the shoemaker died and the child was left entirely to his own devices. He ceased to go to school; he built himself a little toy theater and sat at home making clothes for his puppets, and reading all the plays that he could borrow; among them were those of Holberg and Shakespeare . At Easter 1819 he was confirmed at the church of St. Kund, Odense, and began to turn his thoughts to the future. It was thought that he was best fitted to be a tailor; but as nothing was settled, and as Andersen wished to be an opera singer, he took matters into his own hand and started for Copenhagen in September 1819. There he was taken for a lunatic, snubbed at the theaters, and nearly reduced to starvation, but he was befriended by the musicians Christoph Weyse and Siboni, and afterwards by the poet Frederik Hoegh Guldberg (1771-1852). His voice failed, but he was admitted as a dancing pupil at the Royal Theatre.

He grew idle, and lost the favor of Guldberg, but a new patron appeared in the person of Jonas Collin, the director of the Royal Theatre, who became Andersen's lifelong friend. King Frederick VI was interested in the strange boy and sent him for some years, free of charge, to the great grammar-school at Slagelse. Before he started for school he published his first volume, The Ghost at Palnatoke's Grave (1822). Andersen, a very backward and unwilling pupil, actually remained at Slagelse and at another school in Elsinore until 1827; these years, he says, were the darkest and bitterest in his life. Collin at length consented to consider him educated, and Andersen came to Copenhagen. In 1829 he made a considerable success with a fantastic volume entitled A Journey on Foot from Holman's Canal to the East Point of Amager, and he published in the same season a farce and a book of poems. He thus suddenly came into request at the moment when his friends had decided that no good thing would ever come out of his early eccentricity and vivacity.

He made little further progress, however, until 1833, when he received a small travelling stipend from the king, and made the first of his long European journeys. At Le Locle, in the Jura, he wrote Agnate and the Merman; and in October 1834 he arrived in Rome. Early in 1835 Andersen's novel, The Improvisatore, appeared, and achieved a real success; the poet's troubles were at an end at last. In the same year, 1835, the earliest installment of Andersen's immortal Fairy Tales (Eventyr) was published in Copenhagen. Other parts, completing the first volume, appeared in 1836 and 1837. The value of these stories was not at first perceived, and they sold slowly. Andersen was more successful for the time being with a novel, O.T., and a volume of sketches, In Sweden; in 1837 he produced the best of his romances, Only a Fiddler.

He now turned his attention, with but ephemeral success, to the theater, but was recalled to his true genius in the charming miscellanies of 1840 and 1842, the Picture-Book without Pictures, and A Poet's Bazaar. Meanwhile the fame of his Fairy Tales had been steadily rising; a second series began in 1838, a third in 1845. Andersen was now celebrated throughout Europe, although in Denmark itself there was still some resistance to his pretensions. In June 1847 he paid his first visit to England, and enjoyed a triumphal social success; when he left, Charles Dickens saw him off from Ramsgate pier. After this Andersen continued to publish much; he still desired to excel as a novelist and a dramatist, which he could not do, and he still disdained the enchanting Fairy Tales, in the composition of which his unique genius lay. Nevertheless he continued to write them, and in 1847 and 1848 two fresh volumes appeared. After a long silence Andersen published in 1857 another romance, To be or not to be.

In 1863, after a very interesting journey, he issued one of the best of his travel books, In Spain. His Fairy Tales continued to appear, in installments, until 1872, when, at Christmas, the last stories were published. In the spring of that year Andersen had an awkward accident, falling out of bed and severely hurting himself. He was never again quite well, but he lived until the 4th of August 1875, when he died very peacefully in the house called Rolighed, near Copenhagen. Father: Hans Andersen (shoemaker, d.

1816) Is the subject of books: Hans Christian Andersen: The Story of His Life and Work, 1805�75, 1975, BY: Elias Bredsdorff Hans Christian Andersen: The Life of a Storyteller, 2000, BY: Jackie Wullschl�ger Author of books: Fodrejse fra Holmens Kanal til �stpynten af Amager i Aarene 1828 og 1829 (1829, fiction) Improvisatoren (1835, novel) Eventyr, Fortalte for B�rn (1835, tales) O.T.

(1836, novel) Kun en Spillemand (1837, novel) Billedbog uden Billeder (1840, tales) En Digters Bazar (1842, travelogue) I Sverrig (1851, travelogue) Nye Eventyr og Historier (1858�72, tales) I Spanien (1863, travelogue) Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken. Died: August 4, 1875 (aged 70) Nationality: Danish Occupation: Author, novelist Bio: Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet noted for his children's stories. These include The Steadfast Tin Soldier, The Snow Queen, The Little Mermaid, Thumbelina, The Little Match Girl, and The Ugly Duckling. Hans Christian Andersen (Author of The Complete Fairy Tales) edit data Hans Christian Andersen (often referred to in Scandinavia as H. C. Andersen; April 2, 1805 – August 4, 1875) was a Danish author and poet.

Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, Andersen is best remembered for his fairy tales. Andersen's popularity is not limited to children; his stories—called eventyr, or "fairy-tales"—express themes that transcend age and nationality. Andersen's fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to children, but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well. Some of his most famous fairy tales include "The Little Mermai Hans Christian Andersen (often referred to in Scandinavia as H. C. Andersen; April 2, 1805 – August 4, 1875) was a Danish author and poet. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, Andersen is best remembered for his fairy tales. Andersen's popularity is not limited to children; his stories—called eventyr, or "fairy-tales"—express themes that transcend age and nationality.

Andersen's fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to children, but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well. Some of his most famous fairy tales include "The Little Mermaid", "The Ugly Duckling", "The Nightingale", "The Emperor's New Clothes" and many more. His stories have inspired plays, ballets, and both live-action and animated films. ...more Hans Christian Andersen Biography Hans Christian Andersen Books Hans Christian Andersen, most famously known for his fairy tales like “The Little Mermaid”, “The Ugly Duckling” and “The Emperor’s New Clothes” has left his mark on both the adult literature world as well as young children. Hans Christian Andersen was born on April 2 1805 in Odense Denmark. He is most known as Hans Christian Andersen with English sources, but in his native land he is known as H.C. Andersen. Using the initials of somebody’s name in Denmark is part of an accepted custom. His grandmother told him that their family once had been in a higher social class; however this was never proven to be true.

The only connection to royalty that the family had was work related. The idea that he was somehow the illegitimate son of the Danish King began long ago as the King took a remarkable interest in Hans Christian Andersen when he was a youth. He paid for his education. No one has ever proven though as rumors about his “royal” decent. The Danish King’s interest in Hans Christian may have had something to do with the boy’s vast imagination. He was a very intelligent boy who as a child made himself a toy theatre, along with puppets and clothes to play with. He read many Shakespearean and Holberg plays throughout his childhood and developed a deep passion for literature. He could memorize entire plays and would recite them while he played with is paper dolls as actors. Hans Christian Anderson lost his father at the age of eleven and found himself working as an apprentice for a weaver and a tailor. He was often made fun of for his interest in acting and playing with “dolls” by co-workers and at the age of fourteen he moved from his home town to Copenhagen to seek employment as an actor in a theatre.

At a young age he proved to have a nice soprano voice and succeeded in working in the Royal Danish Theatre until his voice changed in which he changed his focus to writing. It seems that fortune shone upon Hans Christian in his youth because he then ended up meeting Jonas Collin who took a particular interest in the boy. He sent him to grammar school in Slagelse and paid all of his expenses and tuition. Like many other genius men he did not enjoy his school studies but continued to educate himself. He was abused by his schoolmaster in order to “build character” and described his school years as one of the darkest times in his life. His was alienated from the other students and had very few, if any friends. His teachers strongly encouraged him not to write as he was dyslexic. He later became fluent in many different languages such as German, Dutch and English. His first story that was published was called “The Ghost at Palnatoke’s Grave” which was published before he even began grammar school.

As an early writer Hans Christian Andersen had much success with a short story called “A Journey on Foot from Holmen’s Canal to the East Point of Amager.” But it wasn’t until 1833 that he hit success again thanks to the Danish King. The King gave him a considerable grant for making a journey across Europe in which he was inspired to write “Agnete and the Merman” and “The Improvisatore.” The latter became an immediate success. In 1835 he began to write his well known Fairy Tales and competed volume on in 1837. Ironically the well known fairy tales that we love were not successful at the time, but he continued to write two more novels which continued to have success. . In 1847 he was invited to a party thrown by the Countess of Blessington where he met Charles Dickens to which he wrote in his diary, “… I was so happy to see and speak to England’s now living writer, whom I love the most.” He visited Charles Dickens ten years later and over stayed his welcome somewhat. He never quite understood why Dickens stopped answering the letters he wrote to him.

In the spring of 1872, Hans Christian Andersen fell out of his bed and injured himself badly. He then went to live with a friend named Moritz Melchior where he died a painful death on August 4 1875. He received a stipend from the Danish Government as a “national treasure” and a stature now stands in his honor in Copenhagen. Hans Christian Andersen leaves behind a legacy of literature. Some most popular are: • Thumbelina

Question: Hans Christian Anderson died in August 1875. What was his nationality?
Answer: Danish